15" 1.25 - firewire mode warning

[Zachary]

Testimony; also posted in an Apple Discussion.

I started my brand way-the-hell-too-expensive 15" superdrive up in firewire external drive mode by holding the "T" key during startup. I connected to my older Ti 550ghz running 10.2.6, which hasn't given me firewire problems previously. I transfered some files and restarted. When I restarted the new machine it gives me the missing OS folder logo. I ran disk utility, it said everything was good. I ran permissions repair, then reinstalled the OS and ran it again. I started up with the reinstalled system and ran Virex (found nothing), then because I'm such a forgiving guy I tried the firewire transfer again to make sure it wasnt something I did. The OS of the old Ti gives me an alert that said one of my 3 drive partitions was unmountable, one was unrecognizable, and one didn't even try to mount. I wonder whether there is an archetecture conflict or some kind of massive and very wrong problem with firewire mode in OS 10.2.7... Either way I wish when I spend this much money things would go the way I want.

Honestly other than that the thing runs quieter, cooler, and way the hell faster than I thought it would.

[PaisanoMan]

Originally posted by Zachary
... I transfered some files and restarted. When I restarted the new machine it gives me the missing OS folder logo. ...

Did you unmount the new PowerBook before you rebooted? If you don't, that's likely the source of your problem.

[Zachary]

Okay, I never heard of doing that except for running disk diagnostics. I never did it for the 2 years I owned the Ti 550 and I used the firewire on that all the time. If you don't mind could you describe the relevance of unmounting a little further?

Ahh, I posted this before it hit me. You're talking about unmountiing the firewire drive from the older comp I was connected to, I thought you meant I was to unmount the harddrives before restarting into firewire mode. yes I always "eject" the firewire drives before disconnecting the cable.

[advres]

i too have a new aluminum 1.25 Ghz. I have put it into firewire target mode three ttimes since i have had it and have had no problems. I was tranfering files to my schools 533mhz g4 tower running 10.2.6.

I wish i could be of help but i would say its a warranty issue.

[PaisanoMan]

Originally posted by Zachary
... yes I always "eject" the firewire drives before disconnecting the cable. ...

Yeah, that's what I meant. If it's not that, then I don't know what it could be ... :/

[Farside161]

or you could just boot up holding down the "D" key to boot from an internal drive.